Dark and Moody Early Tintype of Two China Dolls and their Bed antique shaker horsehair brush The framework is held together

The framework is held together with twelve handmade nails with irregular rectangular heads

Especially because of the oar she is holding (which makes me especially love this)

14 pages full on both sides of the page (so 28 faces)

I purchased these from a seller who extracted them from a portfolio

Dark and Moody Early Tintype of Two China Dolls and their Bed antique shaker horsehair brush The framework is held togetherDoesn't get much moodier than this one, feeling almost like a post mortem of these two dolls! Early photographs of girls with their dolls are not too hard to come by, but much rarer to find portraits of dolls alone, and here a pair, both with painted porcelain heads and porcelain arms, but slightly different from one another (I'd call the one at left the older sister!) And with what looks like a doll bed behind them, which they are leaning up against.